The Burarra people, also referred to as the Gidjingali , are an Aboriginal Australian people in and around Maningrida , in the heart of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory . Opinions have differed as to whether the two names represent different tribal realities, with the Gidjingali treated as the same as, or as a subgroup of the Burarra, or as an independent tribal grouping. For the purposes of this encyclopedia, the two are registered differently, though the ethnographic materials on both may overlap with each other.
7-463: (Redirected from Gidjingali ) Burarra may refer to: Burarra people , an ethnic group of Australia Burarra language , an Australian language See also [ edit ] Burara , a genus of butterflies Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Burarra . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
14-515: A website about the "people, land, language and traditional technologies of the Burarra people", called Burarra Gathering . Moiety (kinship) In the anthropological study of kinship , a moiety ( / ˈ m ɔɪ ə t i / ) is a descent group that coexists with only one other descent group within a society . In such cases, the community usually has unilineal descent (either patri- or matrilineal ) so that any individual belongs to one of
21-519: Is a prefixing Arnhem land language belonging to the Maningrida family of non- Pama-Nyungan languages . Bururra is spoken by approximately 2,000 people, many of them multilingual. Burarra traditional land covers some 200 square miles (520 km ) on both banks of the Blyth River , for a distance of roughly 20 miles inland. Their eastward extension runs as far as and east to Cape Stewart. Facing
28-719: The Arafura Sea , their territory also extends to some islands, opposite those of their northern maritime neighbours, the Yan-nhaŋu of the Crocodile Islands . Despite speaking markedly different languages – one prefixing , the other suffixing – the Burarra and the Yan-nhaŋu have strong sociocultural links. Their land adjoins that of the Dangbon (or Dalabon), Nakara (Nagara) and Yolngu peoples. Though neighbours of such Yolngu peoples as
35-671: The Dangbon/Dalabon , Nakara and Yolngu peoples. The ethnonym Burarra means 'those people'. Norman Tindale classified the Gidjingali as being eastern Burarra, speaking a dialect only slightly different from Burarra. Les Hiatt argued in 1965 that they were a distinct "tribe". Others take Hiatt's Gidjingali to be essentially synonymous with Burarra, and the words are used now interchangeably. Tindale considered Burarra to be an exonym applied to them by outsiders, and speculated that their "real" name might be Ngapanga . Burarra
42-552: The Djinang , Burarra marriage practices are markedly at odds with those of the Yolngu. Ian Keen has said that there are five major differences: The Burarra, according to Tindale, consist of five subgroups: Each of the five have a Yirritja/Dua moiety division. Source: Tindale 1974 , p. 222 Questacon , Australia's national science and technology centre in Canberra , has produced
49-599: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burarra&oldid=950668138 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Burarra people According to Norman Tindale , there are five sub-groups of Burarra people: Anbara (or Anbarra ), Marawuraba , Madia , Maringa and Gunadba . The Burraras' closest neighbours are
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